Slander Quotes

• The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

  "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  Socrates

  Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Coward, Defense

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

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• A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

  Publilius Syrus

  Mind, Tongue, Proof

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• To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

  George Washington

  Deserving It, Evil, Gossip

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.76

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• Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Men, Occupation

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• What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Doors, Judging, Guilty

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• Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

  Vanna Bonta

  Coward, Implementing

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• No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

  Moliere

  Attention, World, Safe

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• The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Bird, Fruit

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• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

  George Bancroft

  Nine, Tongue, Disappointed

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• Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Truth, Self, People

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• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Greatness, Men

  1849 Marginalia1844-49.

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• Slander is the tool of cowards.

  Vanna Bonta

  Coward, Tools

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Society, Trying, Republic

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• There is no protection against slander.

  Moliere

  Protection

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• The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Men, May

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Poison, Charity

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• A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

  Herodotus

  Believe, Men, Calumny Is

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• Slander is the solace of malignity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Solace

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Children, Truth

  "Gems of Thought" edited by Charles Northend, 1888.

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• How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

  Laurence Sterne

  Honesty, Integrity, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1857). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.548

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• A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

  Josh Billings

  Blow, Firsts, Hornets

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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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